Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Make It Ugly. Then, abrupt as a blow, came Les Demoiselles d' Avignon, a painting done in 1907 depicting five dramatic salmon-pink nudes, their faces hideous as primitive African masks. On seeing the painting, French Painter Georges Braque gasped: "You are asking us to drink petrol in order to spit fire." Today, Demoiselles, which made primitive art an accepted fountainhead of modern art, has only the dated quality of yesteryear's manifesto. But it marked a significant break in art history, ushering in an age in which art is no longer the readily grasped reaffirmation of everyman...
...Holy Terrors is a brand new translation of Cocteau's widely-known tale, Les Enfants Terribles. It is also the latest addition to New Directions' modern French list. Most important, it is a job of translating which should gain the book an even wider audience than it already enjoys...
There seems little more to say of this book. The beautiful horror which pervades the ingenuous self-destruction of les enfants terribles is set before us again. Even if this translation were not as good as it is, we should be grateful for the renewed acquaintance...
...navel up) chorus line. Every small town is making a bid for some of the tourist cash, and theatrical and musical festivals will ring all over France through mid-September. Among them: the Chamber Music Festival at Prades (July 15-Aug. 1), the International Music Festival at Aix-les-Bains (July...
Wild Oats. In Epworth. England, Farmers Jack and Les Keall completed seeding a half-acre strip before realizing that the land belonged to a neighbor...